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Originally Posted by K-Thom
Moejoe, your whole attitude and point of view is the main reason I won't consider the Pirate's Party a serious political or social movement. Which I'm not going to vote for on tomorrow's election in Germany, since I simply won't support filesharers' juvenile motivations.
Grow up and respect the work of others, then we'll talk again.
You won't really make your case with that stance.
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Grow up? Are you serious? You do understand that when a certain someone tells a certain someone else to 'grow up' what they are actually doing is admitting defeat? But lets actually address some of your silly claims.
One; I do respect the works of others, but respect is not the same as bowing down to ridiculous IP rights and the companies behind them (rights that are only a recent invention in any case). Disavowing the ridiculous IP of certain mega-conglomerates is how we fight. Ignoring Copyrght is another.
Two: If it is juvenile to want to do that which has been done since the beginning of our existence as human beings, then I am juvenile. If it is juvenile to want to share that which I have created with others, then I am juvenile. If it is juvenile to want the power to transfer back into the hands of creators, then you may call me juvenile.
Three: I make a vocal stance. I give my creations away freely. I advocate others do the same. Now, let me ask you what do you do? What is your part in the copyfight? Are you, as many others, a simple bystander, who has no part, who does not care? Do you sit on fences awaiting the outcome? Or have you no opinion at all? Are you beige in all this?
Some reports and other articles that may be useful for those who claim they need them to make up their mind:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ectualproperty
142 page report on economic benefits of filesharing (in dutch)
http://www.tno.nl/content.cfm?contex...=1&item_id=473 (Torrentfreak report on this report here:
http://torrentfreak.com/economy-prof...cludes-090119/)
Fifty Cent on filesharing as marketing
File sharing good for music biz -
http://www.openbusiness.cc/?p=158 (original report here:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/409)
Radiohead: Filesharing good for Music:
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4538
NIN "Trent Reznor" understands where the music industry is going -
http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...led-again.aspx
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But, in the end, all these arguments are moot. It is the actions not the words of any man or woman that shall mark their allegiances and passions. How I fight the inequity of the old system is very simply to ignore that system and to provide my own work outside of that system for free and without restrictions.
I ask again, for want of clarity, all those who claim to be on the side of the 'artists', what it is that you 'do' that truly supports those artists? Because if it is merely purchasing products, then you do nothing at all in their favour.